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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter One. Orthodox Political Theology through the Centuries -- Chapter Two. Eucharist or Democracy? -- Chapter Three. Personhood and Human Rights -- Chapter Four. Divine-Human Communion and the Common Good -- Chapter Five. Truth-Telling, Political Forgiveness, and Free Speech -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index.

'The Hauerwas Reader' edited by John Berkman and Michael Cartwright is reviewed.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Outrunning Constantine's Shadow -- Moral Argument in the Human Rights Debate of the Russian Orthodox Church -- Post- Communist Orthodox Countries and Secularization -- Power to the People -- Power, Protest, and Perichoresis -- Strange Fruit -- An Orthodox Encounter with Liberal Democracy -- Democracy and the Dynamics of Death -- "I Have Overcome the World" -- Emperors and Bishops of Constantinople (324–431) -- Stepping Out of Constantine's Shadow -- "You Cannot Have a Church Without an Empire" -- Roman Catholicism and Democracy: The Postconciliar Era -- How (Not) to Be a Political Theologian -- Contributors -- Index

"Sex is a difficult issue for contemporary Christians, but the past decade has witnessed a newfound openness regarding the topic among Eastern Orthodox Christians. Both the theological trajectory and the historical circumstances of the Orthodox Church differ radically from those of other Christian denominations that have already developed robust and creative reflections on sexuality and sexual diversity. Within its unique history, theology, and tradition, Orthodox Christianity holds rich resources for engaging challenging questions of sexuality in new and responsive ways. What is at stake in questions of sexuality in the Orthodox tradition? What sources and theological convictions can uniquely shape Orthodox understandings of sexuality? This volume aims to create an agora for discussing sex, and not least the sexualities that are often thought of as untraditional in Orthodox contexts. Through fifteen distinct chapters, written by leading scholars and theologians, this book offers a developed treatment of sexuality in the Orthodox Christian world by approaching the subject from scriptural, patristic, theological, historical, and sociological perspectives. Chapters devoted to practical and pastoral insights, as well as reflections on specific cultural contexts, engage the human realities of sexual diversity and Christian life. From re-thinking scripture to developing theologies of sex, from eschatological views of eros to re-evaluations of the Orthodox responses to science, this book offers new thinking on pressing, present-day issues and initiates conversations about homosexuality and sexual diversity within Orthodox Christianity"--

Sergii Bulgakov (1871–1944) is one of the preeminent theologians of the 20th century whose work is still being discovered and explored in and for the 21st century. The famous rival of Lenin in the field of economics, was, according to Wassily Kandinsky, "one of the deepest experts on religious life" in early twentieth-century Russian art and culture. As economist, publicist, politician, and later Orthodox theologian and priest, he became a significant "global player" in both the Orthodox diaspora and the Ecumenical movement in the interwar period.
This anthology gathers the papers delivered at the international conference on the occasion of Bulgakov's 150th birthday at the University of Fribourg in September 2021. The chapters, written by established Bulgakov specialists, including Rowan Williams, former Archbishop of Canterbury (2002–2012), as well as young researchers from different theological disciplines and ecclesial traditions, explore Bulgakov's way of meeting the challenges in the modern world and of building bridges between East and West. The authors bring forth a wide range of new creative ways to constructively engage with Bulgakov's theological worldview and cover topics such as personhood, ecology, political theology and Trinitarian ontology.